Teaching Popular Culture: Notes

1. Gaillet, Lynée Lewis. "An Historical Perspective on Collaborative Learning." JAC Online 14.1: http://nosferatu.cas.usf.edu/JAC/141/gaillet.html

2. Anderson, Message #1. "Popular Culture Discussion." 2 February 1999. http://sites.unc.edu/~daniel/131spring99/popcult.html. All quotations are from the real-time transcript. Hereafter, I will cite from this forum by using an in-line notation including the message number and the respondent’s last name.

3. In quoting from this forum, I thought it would be useful to take a look at the details of the real-time transcript. Below, I list the respondents’ names, the number of times each respondent entered a comment, and the percentage of total comments that number represents. This chart ignores length of comments, and to what degree comments engaged other responses. I will note, nonetheless, that Kobylinski, who had the highest number of responses, also had very interactive responses.

Name

# of responses

%

Kobylinski

27

27.6

Seaton

17

17.3

Marchbanks

11

11.2

Morawski

10

10.2

Lynch

7

7.1

Stackpole

7

7.1

Wright

7

7.1

Sewell

4

4.1

Wells

4

4.1

Anderson, K

3

3.1

 

4. Kammen, Michael. "The Study of Popular Culture Has Acquired Legitimacy, but Still Lacks Cohesion." Chronicle of Higher Education 3 July 1998: B4.

5. Kammen, Michael. "The Study of Popular Culture Has Acquired Legitimacy, but Still Lacks Cohesion." Chronicle of Higher Education 3 July 1998: B4.

6. Gates, David. "A Dunce Cap for America." Newsweek 20 April 1987: 72.

7. Solorzano, Lucia. "A pop quiz on cultural literacy." U.S. News & World Report 13 April 1987: 15.

8. Nifong, Christina. "Readers reaching for golden oldies." The News and Observer 17 February 1999: 1E.

9. "Newsmakers." Newsweek 22 February 1999: 43

10. Levine, Lawrence W. Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988.